National Republican., 1887-01-18
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Public BuIIdInes in Virginia.

Inc cause OF the lnllurc IN tne HOUSE OF Cer~
tain bills that have passed the Senate making
appropriations for public buildings in Norfolk,
Harrisonburg, and other places in Virginia is
tersely stated in the following letter oil Senator
Malone:
JUDGE Yours OF the 9Th instant was duly re-
ceived. At an early day In the last session OF
the present Congress introduced bill, No. 0l0,
completion OF the public building at Harrison.
burg. In my anxiety to secure this needed
appropriation, and for the moinent forgetting
sequently introduced another bill. No. 205s,
covering the same object. This bill, No. 2n5S.
passed the Senate on the 11th day of May, 1885,
Representatives., Rep In who Whose committee on public
buildings and grounds II sleeps TO this hour.
undislurbed so far as know, by eny word or
effort on the part of any member Of Virginias
delegation 10 have IL reported TO the House.
Meanwhile there remained on the calendar
Of the Senate the bill ! had first introduced
| mo. 0l0), not discovered until lately. II was
to disncunber the calendar of this bill-for
which there was no longer any use-that
moved some days since, as was my duty as
chairman Of the committee on public buildings
and grounds, that 1t be indefinitely postponed,
stating at the time the reason for such motion:
"A bill huring already passed The Senate corcriRg
thc, same object" ,approprating. $4,000 for the
enlargement and completion of the building ut
Harrisonburg. Other motions to the like effect
were made at the same time and Tor the same
reason.
record, you tell me that the editor of some
Democratic paper In referring to the motion to
postpone. as with q sigh, says: And thus the
appropriation (ior the Herrisonburg building)
traordinary. deduction, q very remarkable
statement for any Intelligent person to make.
Harrisonburg ought to be fortunate in being
the homo OF the representative OF the district
in which the town Is situated, and 1t is not for
me to know why the bill which passed the
Senate on the l4th Of May, 1886, has been per-
mitted to linger in the public buildings COM
mittee of the House-why it has not been re-
ported to the House long since and passed. II
cannot reasonably be supposed that the repre-
sentative OF the Harrlsonburg district is with
out concern for a bill which would not only
carry $4,000 to be, in some measure, distrib-
| uted In his own district and at his own home
but supply the money needed ioT the necessary
| enlargement and completion Of the building
| upon scale which the business OF the courts
and the postofice It is intended to accommo-
date are known to require. While confess
| this bill in the House of Repre-
| sentatives--you may not know that three other
lie buildings In Virginia, which passed the
| Senate on the 18th day OF February, 1886,
sleep on the House calendar, aud thus in the
yoa for Se% Is
| $4,000 which the passage of these three bills
would expend in Virginia, and the important
| ODJects Oh pubic interests WDlCn Sucn eXpenQl-
| lures would secure are most likely to be lost
| possibly because the time and attention of the
representatives are occupied with larger af-
fairs Of state. These bills provide: No. 40
| for the construction of q posotice building at
| Fort Monroe. si5O00; No. 1S2 for q courthouse
and poostoiiceo building at Norfolk, s15o,OO1,
| and No. $50 for the enlargement OF
the public building at Petersburg, $4,000.
| These three bills fingered long in the
| House committee, and until, at my personal
| solicitation, certain members OF the House from
other states kindly interceded, and by their in
fiuerce they were reported to the House; and II
would seem that the hope for the passage OF
| any one OF them must rest upon the kindly
offices Of members from other states.
| With all the influence that that portion OF
| the Virginia delegation which is of the ma
| jority side of the committee of the House and
| of the body, 1t does seem strange that Virginia
| she uld be denied every measure OF that con.
sideration in respect to such non political
matters as has been and is accorded to other
| states. Meanwhile the record shows that
twenty-six or more bills on account of public
| buildings for other states have passed the
| House, and among them, to the credit OF the
| eleven members from the great state of Texas,
five bills for that state covering s675,QoO Yours
| truly, MAHoNE.
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